In the early post-9/11 days they were absolutely key as a place fostering very freewheeling discussions of nearly anything connected to the overall topic of “WTF is going on”. I was a fairly regular commenter there for a while.

Looking back on that now, it was a tremendously naive and optimistic time.

They made some enemies and had some disagreements. By and large the enemies proved themselves bad or untrustworthy. The disagreements often weren’t fully resolved, but not all disagreements need to be.

One of Glenn Reynolds’ worst public moments was when he trusted the Little Green Footballs guy and threw them under the bus as RacissNaziWhatever. He did apologize for that once LGF went visibly hard-left, but then never linked to them again. It was instructive.

This is horrible news. GoV fan and avid reader for years, very useful for bringing ground level truth to EUCOM J2 offices back a few years ago. She will be missed, and prayers for the Baron and family.